Léxico toponímico de Diamantina: língua, cultura e memória

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IBICT - Instituto Brasileiro de Informação em Ciência e Tecnologia

DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

30/06/2010

RESUMO

This research aims to study toponyms from the City of Diamantina and its districts, situated in the valley of the Jequitinhonha river, a region of the State of Minas Gerais, Brazil. This region is historically important due to its strategic location during the period mineral exploration during the 18th and 19th centuries. Toponimic studies show traces of the local social and cultural history, including constitution of space and settlement as well as vegetation, hidrography, geomorphology, fauna, etc., and they also contribute to the preservation of the memory of the people, since the names of places, when related to language, culture and society, seem to be legitimate registers of past events. The theoretical and methodological is based on concepts defended by Dauzat (1926) and Dick (1990a, 1990b, 2004) and on the theories on environment elaborated by Sapir (1969). From a sociolinguistic perspective, according to the Labovian model, the research should start at the present moment, expanding towards the past. Firstly, data on vernacular language was collected in oral interviews; then old maps were referred to for data on written language. The data on past and present elements were then compared, aiming to examine cases of variations, changes, or linguistic retentions. Results show the predominance of names of places based on the names of plants, names of people and names of geographical elements. The research also shows a small number of cases f variation and of linguistic changes, indicating that the local toponimic is quite conservative.

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lingüística teses. toponímia teses. língua portuguesa regionalismos diamantina (mg) teses. sociolinguística teses. linguagem e cultura diamantina (mg) teses. língua portuguesa lexicologia teses. mudanças lingüísticas teses.

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